discourses of class intersect with the gendered discipline of girls in secure care. Secure care can be understood as a site in which repressive and productive forms of power meet to produce subjects (Foucault [1974]1987). Such a theoretical perspective
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Ensuring Failure?
The Impact of Class on Girls in Swedish Secure Care
Maria A. Vogel
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Jun 2021
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- Research Article
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- 80–96 (17 total)
Working Hard, Hanging Back
Constructing the Achieving Girl
Colette Slagle
discursively created across many context-specific sites. Drawing from Foucault’s The Archaeology of Knowledge , she examines both media constructions and girls’ own constructions of such a girl. The book is a multisite, interdisciplinary study that works to
“Farmers Don't Dance”
The Construction of Gender in a Rural Scottish School
Fiona G. Menzies and Ninetta Santoro
position to occupy rather than a fixed role” ( McRae 1996: 242 ). We draw here on the work of Foucault (1974 , 1980 , 1981 ) and Judith Butler (1990 , 2004) to offer insight into how and why pupils take up gendered positions in school. Of particular
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Mar 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 67–82 (16 total)
Questions of Authorship
Some Comments on David Bordwell’s Narration in the Fiction Film
Paisley Livingston
is fundamentally wrong ( Foucault 1969 ; Love 2002 ; Rose 1993 ; Saunders 1992 ; Woodmansee 1984 , Woodmansee and Jaszi 1994 ). As one Foucault-inspired philosopher put this prevalent thesis, “all authorship is constructed, assigned, and
The Abstinence Only Until Marriage Program and Girl (Dis)empowerment
Kaoru Miyazawa
citizenship ( Weeks 1998 ). At the same time, in the history of modern nation-states, as Foucault pointed out (see Davidson 2008 ; Dreyfus and Rabinow 1983 ), sexuality has also been the major site in which biopower has operated to regulate citizens
Ethical Practice and the Study of Girlhood
April Mandrona
Saba Mahmood who extends Michel Foucault’s theorizing. In her reading of Foucault, for example, Mahmood writes, Foucault distinguished ethical practices from ‘morals,’ reserving the latter to refer to sets of norms, rules, values, and injunctions
Wandelnde Horizonte des Weltwissens
Zur Raumvorstellung der elementaren Geographieschulbücher des Japanischen Kaiserreichs
Toshiko Ito
Raum, der die Vormoderne und die Moderne in eins verschmelzen lässt Es ist ein halbes Jahrhundert her, dass Michel Foucault das 20. Jahrhundert als das Jahrhundert des Raums bezeichnete. 1 Seit Foucaults Denkanstoß entfaltet sich ein
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
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- 01 Mar 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 82–105 (24 total)
“Something Good Distracts Us from the Bad”
Girls Cultivating Disruption
Crystal Leigh Endsley
different version of success. Social institutions like family and school consume large portions of girls’ lives, often working to ensure that they are read in disempowering ways while managing them accordingly (see Foucault 1980 ). These relationships are
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Jun 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 63–78 (16 total)
Imperialism and Nationhood in Children’s Books in Colonial Bengal
Gargi Gangopadhyay
, Chhelebelar Dinguli , 30. 40 Chakraborty, Chhelebelar Dinguli , 31–32. 41 Sunirmal Basu, Jiban Khatar Koyek Pata [Some leaves from the book of my life] (Calcutta: Orient Book Company, 1955), 52. 42 Foucault defines “heterotopia” as a physical place
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
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- 01 Mar 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 63–81 (19 total)
Disability, Girlhood, and Vulnerability in Transnational Contexts
Nirmala Erevelles and Xuan Thuy Nguyen
and Lennard Davis . Houndmills : Palgrave Macmillan . 10.1057/9781137023001_17 Gannon , Susanne , and Marnina Gonick ( 2014 ). “ ‘Choir Practice’ in Three Movements: Analyzing a Story of Girlhood through Deleuze, Butler, and Foucault .” Pp